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Categorical vs Supernormal - What's the difference?

categorical | supernormal |

As adjectives the difference between categorical and supernormal

is that categorical is absolute; having no exception while supernormal is beyond what is normal; exceeding the average or the point of reference.

As a noun categorical

is (logic) a categorical proposition.

categorical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • absolute; having no exception
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  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
    • Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.
  • of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories

    • Synonyms

    * absolute, categoric, unconditional

    Antonyms

    * exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

    Derived terms

    * acategorical * categorical imperative * categoricalness

    Related terms

    * categoricity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) A categorical proposition.

    • supernormal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Beyond what is normal; exceeding the average or the point of reference.
  • *Supernormal employment.
  • *Supernormal production.
  • Paranormal, supernatural.
  • * 1996 , Jess Byron Hollenback, Mysticism: Experience, Response, and Empowerment
    • For example, why is it that supernormal phenomena so often accompany mystical experiences?
  • (default logic, of a default) Both categorical and normal.

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